How one company will build satellite parts in space:
Imagine a satellite able to repair itself. When a solar panel degrades or an antenna gets stuck, the satellite simply 3-D prints a replacement and goes on with its business.
"This is really transformational, because everything we've sent to space we fold up and blast it into space. We have to design it unfurl itself perfectly and survive the rigors of launch," Rush said. NASA gave Made in Space and its partners -- subcontractors Northrop Grumman Corp. and Oceaneering Space Systems -- $20 million in funding in 2015 to create the first"additive manufacturing" and assembly of complex systems in space without the help of astronauts.
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